Ignorance and want

 

(Swiped from today's Wonkette.   Thanks to the anonymous genius who created it.)

Only one president has been called a liar while speaking to a joint session of Congress on national television, and surprise! it's the Kenyan Muslim Usurper.  His noisy critic, Wilson of SC, was recently found taunting Democrats for cowardice in the face of covid -- until he himself tested positive.  "You die!"  Merry Christmas, Michelle and Barack.

Wilson isn't dead yet but his fellow idiot, Ken Buck (R-CO), has a good reason to refuse vaccination:  "I'm an American.  I have the freedom to decide..."  Another proponent of "my body, my choice" (as long as your body will never house a zygote).  I'm with you, Ken -- more vaccine for intelligent people.  Don't let me catch you wearing a mask or washing your hands.  I assume you're headed for church tomorrow.

Mike Pompeo could be the next Cabinet member to beat the Christmas rush out the door:  He says Russia is "pretty clearly" behind the Pearl Harbor-size cyber attack on the government.  This contradicts Trump's insistence that "it may be China" and is in any case exaggerated by the "Fake News Media."  Palm Beach residents are in court trying to prevent him living full-time at Mar-a-Lago, so it sounds like he's making sure of a welcome in Moscow.

Congress managed to vote a budget extension but is still wrangling over relief for victims of the Trumpandemic.  The main goal in the Senate seems to be screwing both desperate families (who have probably blown through the $1,200 they got in April) and the Biden Administration by limiting the Fed's emergency lending powers.  It's a two-fer!  Leading the fuckery is the very same Ron Johnson who held a hearing for conspiracy nuts only days ago.  "If they would rather die they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population," right, Ron?

Sidney Powell may be rewarded for her unbroken string of courtroom defeats by becoming a special White House counsel investigating "fraud," i.e., the ass-kicking administered by Joe Biden over a month ago.  Even Giuliani thinks this is a bad idea.  Powell brought along her former client Michael Flynn, who again argued for martial law.  As long as the MyPillow clown is writing checks, this could be yet another profitable exit scam for everyone.  Meanwhile, more judges in Wisconsin and Arizona have batted aside challenges to the election results from Powell and her tame kraken.  (I don't believe a federal judge has ever called a filing "bass-ackward" before.)

The struggle continues outside the courtrooms, too:  A family in Little Elm, Texas, erected a BLACK LIVES MATTER sign in their yard and woke to find their two cars on fire and "Trump 20" spray-painted on the garage door, as if there was any question.  

Britain has doubled down on its restrictions a week before Christmas because the coronavirus is not only spiking but mutating and becoming 70 percent more transmissible.  Nevertheless Trump wants to lift travel restrictions between the US and Europe in the next week because the airline industry is hurting.  Also, "We want them infected."

In two days Jupiter and Saturn will come together for the first time since 1623 in a "Great Conjunction," unleashing torrents of bullshit about a "Christmas star."  Feel free to ignore it, even if you live in Bethlehem (Pennsylvania).  Sleep in whatever peace you can muster.